Apache OpenWhisk is a free software for setting up serverless computing platform. It is an open source implementation of a distributed, event-driven compute service. You can run it on your own hardware on premise, or in the cloud. Previously we have talked about the basics of serverless computing. Here is How To Install Apache OpenWhisk On Ubuntu Server Single Instance. We normally install … [Read more...]
What Is Serverless Computing?
New technologies and nomenclatures often confuse the CIOs to the developers. Such a new thing is Serverless Computing. What Is Serverless Computing? Serverless Computing aka Functions as a Service (FaaS) is not technology but a service model for the delivery of Public Cloud. Service model does not mean traditional Cloud Computing Service Models. But if you are used with Platform as a Service … [Read more...]
Pricing War in Cloud Computing Storage Started Again
We have seen pricing war in the field of cloud computing. This Year, Pricing War in Cloud Computing Storage Started Again. A downward pricing for the next 18 months is predicted by the experts from 451 Research. Earlier, we have seen decrease in pricing of virtual machines, but the pricing of some cloud services like cloud storage, CDN, DNS, Database services has not drastically changed before the … [Read more...]
List of Big Data Tutorials For The Beginners
At this moment, we lack a separate category for Big Data. At worst, hackers hacked our Twitter account and deleted 3000 tweets. Here is a list of Big Data tutorials we published so far. This list cum guide is intended for the beginners, so that they can install and configure the common softwares like Apache Hadoop on cloud server. We also have guides to find good yet cheap cloud servers, dedicated … [Read more...]
Docker LinuxKit : For Building Containers on Any Operating System
Docker has officially presented LinuxKit - a tool to create custom and light Linux subsystems for use on multiple platforms. LinuxKit is a container native toolkit allowing developers to build their own containerized secure, modular and portable operating systems. They call it LinuxKit because Linux is the core component of this toolkit. One of the issues Docker team have found that on a number of … [Read more...]
Intel Abandons OpenStack Innovation Center Project
Intel has planned to be out from one major OpenStack collaboration with Rackspace although both the companies and the OpenStack Foundation insist everything to be fine. Intel Abandons OpenStack Innovation Center Project which was assigned to a structure with at least 2000 nodes, had to facilitate the use of OpenStack software at major IT companies. Before the Easter Intel has turned off the money … [Read more...]
Automated Deployment of Apache Hadoop & Big Data Softwares
Previously we have published guides on how to install Apache Hadoop, how to install Apache Spark, how to install Apache Hadoop and use with ElasticSearch. Also we have talked about Cloud Orchestration Tools, Getting started guide with Ansible and Ansible Playbooks. If the above two sets of tutorial's philosophies are combined, installation of Hadoop and complicated, time taking softwares can … [Read more...]
Linux Server Security Hardening Commands
We have many hands on guides on specific softwares with all commands. Most of them needs time and not exactly covered all the issues. Here is a List of Linux Server Security Hardening Commands For the New SSH Users & New Sysadmins. Guide is For Cloud & Virtual Instances. The way to secure a dedicated server or colocation server will be different for various extra ways of access to physical … [Read more...]
What is Data Lake in Big Data?
In our one previous guide, we have shown step by step tutorial on how to create Data Lake on server and talked basic matters around data lake. A data lake comprises of multiple repositories providing data to an organisation for analytical processing including analytics & reporting. In another guide, we have talked about medical prediction using the data lake. It is James Dixon who coined the … [Read more...]
List of Essential Security Tools For GNU/Linux Servers
Not all the users are aware of existence of many GNU/Linux security tools but can use the SSH to install softwares, configure and run public website as an example usage. Here is a List of Essential Security Tools For GNU/Linux Servers Useful to New to Non System Administrator Users to Protect From Exploits. This list will help them to find the packages and guides all over the internet. We have a … [Read more...]
Big Data as a Service (BDaaS) Basics
Although Software as a Service had big usability, expect for few usages, SaaS has been restricted and corporates are in favour of on-premise. Big Data as a Service or BDaaS, is as if combination of SaaS, PaaS and DaaS. Self Hosting Big Data platform is time consuming and costly. Businesses have cloud-based IT spending of about 15% now. The forecasted value of the BDaaS market is … [Read more...]